A good map of all things: a picaresque novel

✍ Scribed by Alberto Álvaro Ríos

• Publisher: University of Arizona Press
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 639 KB
• Series: Camino del sol
• Category: Fiction
• City: Mexico.
• ISBN: 0816541035

✦ Synopsis

In Alberto Álvaro Ríos's new picaresque novel, momentous adventure and quiet connection brings twenty people to life in a small town in northern Mexico. A Good Map of All Things is home to characters whose lives are interwoven but whose stories are their own, adding warmth and humor to this continually surprising communal narrative. The stories take place in the mid-twentieth century, in the high desert near the border--a stretch of land generally referred to as the Pimería Alta--an ancient passage through the desert that connected the territory of Tucson in the north and Guaymas and Hermosillo in the south. The United States is off in the distance, a little difficult to see, and, in the middle of the century, not the only thing to think about. Mexico City is somewhere to the south, but nobody can say where and nobody has ever seen it.

Ríos has created a whimsical yet familiar town, where brightly unique characters love fiercely and nurture those around...

✦ Subjects

Mexico